Laster s tack-can



(No -Model.) T. F. TYLER.

LASTERS TACK CAN. 1

No. 369,085. Patented Aug. 30, 1887.

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'NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THADDEUS FRANK TYLER, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

LAS'TERS TACK-CAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,085 dated August 30, 1887.

Application filed February 4, 1887. Serial No. 226,509. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be .it known that I, THADDEUS FRANK TY- LER, of Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lasters Tack- Oans, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to cans used by lasters of boot and shoe uppers to throw lastingtacks into their mouths. Such a can has a conical top with an orifice in its apex, and the operator grasps the can in his hand and raises it to his lips, so as to pour a small quantity of the tacks into his mouth. Usually these cans are made of sheet metal and become rusted,

gnmmed, and dirty by moisture from the operators lips, and therefore very objectionable. Recently glass-topped cans have been introduced to obviate these objections; but the glass makes the can heavy, and as the operator has to jerk the can to discharge the tacks into-his mouth, and is liable to strike his frontteeth with the can, the weight of the glass becomes objectionable, as it is liable to inflict severe pain by striking the teeth. This last-named objection also applies to a certain extent to metal-topped cans. 1

My invention has for its object to obviate the above-recited objections; and it consists in a guard or buffer of yielding material adapted to be applied to the discharge-orifice of a tackcan as a means for preventing moisture from the lips from getting on the can and to prevent injuriousor painful contact of the can against the operators teeth, as I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a top view of a can having my improvement. Fig. 2 represents a section on line 90 00, Fig. 1.

The same letters of, reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, (t represents a tack-can having a discharge-orifice in the apex of its conical top.

1) represents the guard or buffer, the same being a ring of rubber or other suit-able yielding material, formed to be engagedwith the apertured portion of the can-top and constituting a rim or bushing around the dischargeorifice. As here shown, the guard has a lip, 2, formed to fit' the inside of the conical top, and an outwardly-projecting lip, 3,which covers the margin of the discharge-orifice. This form of guard is adapted to be easily engaged with the can and to hold itself in place.

The lip 2 may be beaded, as shown in Fig. 3, instead of inclined, as shown in Fig. 2. I do not limit myself, however, to the described form of the guard, nor to rubber as the material thereof, as the form may be varied and other suitable yielding material-such as cork-may be substituted for rubber.

I claim- 1. The combination, with a tack-can, of an annular guard or buffer of yielding material surrounding the orifice in said can, as set forth.

2. A tack-can having an annular guard or buffer surrounding its discharge-orifice, as set forth.

3. An annular guard or buffer of yielding material, formed to engage with the margin of the discharge-orifice of a tack-can, as set forth.

4. An annular guard or buffer having alip, 2, with an inclined or beaded outer surface, and a lip, 3, overhanging the lip 2, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification,in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 1st day of February, 1887.

THADDEUS FRANK TYLER.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM A. NnnLY,

IRA B. KEITH. 

